My story of what its like to be married to an Amway cult follower. I expose the lies that our upline told and what happens at Amway meetings and functions. I leave the explanations of why Amway is a poor business opportunity or the tool scam to other bloggers. This blog mainly exists to curse out my former upline, aka the cult leaders, and to let everyone know what kind of idiots I had to put up with. Feel free to join in or live vicariously!

Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Amway Is Just Another Work-At-Home Scheme

We’ve all seen the ads stuck to telephone poles or on Craigslist or free
local papers: WORK FROM HOME.

And no the podcast is not about Scamway but it could have been. Same manipulation
techniques and same bullying that Amway cult leaders use.

Usually these work from home scam ads have a phone number or email address
to contact for more information. And most of the time if the person makes
contact it’s probably a scam they’ve already heard of like stuffing envelopes
or making jewelry which is pretty much impossible to make money at. Think about
it. In this day and age big corporations have machines that fold papers and
stuff envelopes, address them, and print a stamp on them. Small companies would
contract this type of service out if they had a huge mail out campaign going
on. As for jewelry, if you really had talent doing this kind of thing you’d be
doing it yourself without going through a head office middleman. Instead you buy
your supplies, make your jewelry, and sell them on Etsy or markets or put them
in stores on consignment.

At Amway meetings they always pushed Amway as a work-from-home scam. OK the
word scam is mine but everyone reading this blog gets the picture. Amway is a
scam.

And work from home is only a paraphrase to indicate the Ambot is NOT
employed somewhere with a real J.O.B. A lot of people who work from home have
to hit the road to meet customers, pick up supplies or whatever. In Amway the
ambots are constantly on the go attending Amway cult meetings, sniping
prospects at Safeway or Barnes & Noble, running around doing errands for
the assholes in the Amway upline and so on. Ambots probably spend less time at
home than they did when they had a real job because Amway cult leaders keep
them constantly busy.

So that in itself is a scam because Amway’s not really a work from home
opportunity because you spend more time on the road doing Amway shit than you
do at home.

Most scams want their victims to put money up front. Those guys stuffing
envelopes probably paid $20 to get a booklet with instructions on how to post
their own ad and when the money comes in they copy the booklet and send it out.

The people putting together jewellery probably had to dump a couple hundred
bucks to buy supplies and the jewellery they make will never be good enough to
be purchased back by the “retailer”.

Amway wants way more money than that. A reader recently said it costs about
$170 now to sign up for Amway and that includes that starter pack of shitty
Amway products. And of course we all know it doesn’t end there. By the first of
the year you got to buy another year’s membership with Amway’s expensive buying
club so it really sucks if you signed up in the last half of the year because
those fucking Amway assholes don’t prorate their membership or base it on the
day you signed up, its based on calendar year starting Jan 1.

There are legitimate work from home businesses out there. Most people can
research online or at a library or buy a book and get ideas of the types of
home businesses they can run and really be their own boss and set their own
hours and their own prices. They don’t need to be a home based business being a
lowly paid commissioned salesperson for a scam MLM like Amway where you must
answer to the fucking assholes in your upline, ordered to attend meetings,
prices are already established, and you’re constantly kissing some fucker’s
ass.

You want to work from home? Don’t answer any ads claiming you can do that.
Figure out your own business opportunity.

6 comments:

A really obnoxious thing about Amway is the constant meetings! You have to attend endless little gatherings at homes, at coffee shops, at cheap restaurants, or wherever else your stupid up-line orders you to go. Amway has more meetings than the UN.

And they are spectacularly useless! You either show the boring "Plan" with the silly circles, or you listen to some mindless pep-talk, or you're introduced to some fat-assed Diamond, or your up-line bullies you into buying more products.

These meetings don't have any legitimate business purpose, in the sense of helping you to retail goods. They just repeat the same Amway drivel over and over. The meetings are solely to indoctrinate you with loyalty to Amway by compelling you to attend without question.

I advise every IBO reading this to make the following experiment. The next time your up-line calls you and tells you there is a meeting for you to attend, say the following: "I'm sorry but I have something more important to do."

Then come here to Anna's website and tell us (honestly!) what the guy's reaction was.

Anonymous - I hear you on those constant meetings. Endless meetings and it was all the same shit you heard the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that into endless eternity. The only thing that changes is the sack of shit Platinum's nightly rant. Depends on which Ambot is being ridiculed or something going on in the news that he wants to bitch about.

The endless Amway meetings are to keep the Ambots brainwashed. No other purpose.

It's like what if you have a job and three times a day the boss holds staff meetings and all he talks about is people need to put their recycled paper into a different bin than garbage.

Hey I like your advise to every IBO reading this. I doubt they'd be honest in the response they got when they told the assholes in the Amway upline they got something more important to do that night instead of attending their cult meeting.

The reality is they'd be changing their song about how wonderful, and loving, and caring, and understanding their upline is once their the subject of a rage attack about missing an Amway meeting.

Amway is kind of like the Mafia in that when the boss calls you to a meeting you go except that the Mafia actually makes money. The Ambots pay money to their upline capo who berates them for not paying enough. "Is youse holdin' out on me? Youse better not be. Da boss sez youse not bringin' in enough. Are ya sure youse hasn't squeezed all yer friends an' relatives yet ta get dem ta pay more? All right den git back to da Barnes an a Noble, da Starbucks, hit da Safeway too an' try a litta harda dis a time, ya unnerstan'?Word is Hollywood was going to do a blockbuster movie "The Ambotfather" but scrapped it because it was too boring.

Comments are moderated but we publish just about everything. Even brainwashed ambots who show up here to accuse us of not trying hard enough and that we are lazy, quitters, negative, unchristian dreamstealers. Like we haven’t heard that Amspeak abuse from the assholes in our upline!

If your comment didn’t get published it could be one of these reasons:1. Is it the weekend? We don’t moderate comments on weekends. Maybe not every day during the week either. Patience.2. Racist/bigoted comments? Take that shit somewhere else.3. Naming names? Public figures like politicians and actors and people known in Amway are probably OK – the owners, Diamonds with CDs or who speak at functions, people in Amway’s publicity department who write press releases and blogs. Its humiliating for people to admit their association with Amway so respect their privacy if they’re not out there telling everyone about the love of their life.4. Gossip that serves no purpose. There are other places to dish about what Diamonds are having affairs or guessing why they’re getting divorced. If you absolutely must share that here – don’t name names. I get too many nosy ambots searching for this. Lets not help them find this shit.5. Posting something creepy anonymously and we can’t track your location because you’re on a mobile device or using hide my ass or some other proxy. I attracted an obsessed fan and one of my blog administrators attracted a cyberstalker. Lets keep it safe for everyone. Anonymous is OK. Creepy anonymous and hiding – go fuck yourselves!6. Posting something that serves no purpose other than to cause fighting.7. Posting bullshit Amway propaganda. We might publish that comment to make fun of you. Otherwise take your agenda somewhere else. Not interested.8. Notice how this blog is written in English? That's our language so keep your comments in English too. If you leave a comment written in another language then we either have to use Google translate to put it into English so everyone can understand what you wrote or we can hit the Delete button. Guess which one is easier for us to do?9. We suspect you're a troublemaking Amway asshole.10. Your comment got caught in the spam filter. Gets checked occasionally. We’ll get to you eventually and approve it as long as it really isn’t spam.

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I'm married to a former Ambot - one of those annoying commissioned Amway salespeople. Fortunately he saw the light of the horrible cult he was part of and ended his association. I'm here to report on the crap he took and I had to put up with. Hoping I might be able to help some poor souls who find themselves in the same situation I was - married to an ambot.